Finds that important determinants of fire risk in the region are distance to roads, recent deforestation and density of human settlements

Finds that severely dry conditions alone increased the area of high fire risk by 69%, affecting all categories of land use and land cover

Finds that interactions between extreme dry conditions and rapid frontier expansion further increased fire risk, resulting in potential biomass loss of 2.44±0.8 Tg in high risk area, about 1.8 times higher than the estimates for the 2010 drought